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To: Red Badger
AI continues to impress me alternately with its cleverness and its stupidity. As an example of the latter, I posted on this thread a little while ago, how little a volume of ice 150 tons is. I had done some quick back-of-a-napkin math estimating it but wanted to do a sanity check, so I threw it over to Brave's AI.

Brave AI correctly noted that one cubit foot of ice weighs about 57 pounds, but in the next paragraph of calculations it completely spaced out and continued the calculations with a figure of 57 pounds per cubic meter, which dramatically inflated the resulting volume to something I knew was wrong as soon as I saw it. You'd think AI would at least be able to do math well, but it continues to make these sorts of extremely basic errors, and that's why I can't trust AI results without independent verification. And if I have to go through the bother of independently verifying anything it says, why bother with it in the first place?

22 posted on 09/05/2026 8:14:39 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970
I have used AI to make some political cartoons: See if you can spot the defects...........
23 posted on 09/05/2026 8:23:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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